Automatically configure network card (The Internet vs Work networks)

Question

In the "Configure Network Adapters" screen in Win Mobile 5 and Pocket PC 2003 you can manually set "My network card connects to:" The Internet or Work.  I'm looking for a way to do this automatically.  I need the device's NIC to connect to the "Work" network or my Connection Manager mapping CPF won't work.  I'd like to set this setting in .Net code or in a CPF file, but I'd be interested to hear any way this could be done.  Can anyone help me?

 

Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi LowaEric,

           Programmatically you do it by feeding the xml to DMProcessConfigXML(). The problem is that you will most likely get the same security-related failure unless you sign your executable. The advantage is that you sign the executable only once, so if you do a lot of provisioning, you don't have to sign every .cpf .

          You can also search in the forum, click the link below:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/Search/Search.aspx?words=CPF&searchKey=&lcid=1033&searchscope=forumgroupscope&siteid=1&ForumID=-1&ForumGroupID=11&GoButton=+Go

 

 

 

 

 

Best regards,

Guang-Ming Bian-MSFT

 

Answer 2

Thanks for your reply.  What I'm looking for is the XML that will change this setting.  I can handle the signing/security issues, but I can't find the XML that I need.  If you could tell me the XML, that would be great.

 

Thanks,

IowaEric

 

Answer 3

Hi lowaEric,

There is a xml sample in this issue and you can also search in the forum, click the link below:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/Search/Search.aspx?words=DMProcessConfigXML&localechoice=9&SiteID=1&searchscope=forumgroupscope&ForumGroupID=11

 

 

 

Best regards,

Guang-Ming Bian - MSFT

Answer 4

Thank you for your reply.

 

We seem to have a miscommunication.  I am familiar with the layout of the XML that goes into a CPF.  What I'd like to learn are the characteristics, parameters and values to change the configuration of the network card. If I have

 

<wap-provisioningdoc>

    <characteristic type="?">

        <parm name="?" value="?"/>

    </characteristic>

</wap-provisioningdoc>

 

in an XML file that I will put in a signed CPF, what would I replace the ?s with to configure my network card to use the Work Network instead of The Internet?

 

Thank you for your patience,

IowaEric

Answer 5

Check out if this sample may be of use:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa456062.aspx

 

the sample shows how to bind a NIC to the Work destination

 

I beleive you should replace the value for the destId parameter with the following guid:

{436EF144-B4FB-4863-A041-8F905A62C572}  ,

in order to have the Internet destination binded.

 

here comes an example containing the predifined destId values for the default destinations:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa456107.aspx

 

Few more examplesCM_NetEntries Configuration Provider)

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa456087.aspx

 

 

 

 

 

Answer 6

Thank you very much. Unfortunately, now I'm having trouble finding the "fully qualified name" of my network adapter.  I can't find how to do GetAdaptersAddresses() in C# for Win Mobile 5. Your blog only had the link to the MSDN definition. If you could tell me how to do that, too, it would be great.

 

Answer 7

as an option you may use vxUtils to get the names of the available adapters.

menu Function/Info and you'll get the adapter names - the first part (before the dash) is the one you need

 

if you need a programatic access you may try the classes from the OpenNETCF.Net namespace or try playing with this example

 

 

 

Answer 8

Sorry it took me so long to reply.  I ended up getting around this by using two CPFs - one for "My Work Network" and another for "My ISP".  If I can't connect the first time, I assume that the network card is configured for the other network and I run the other CPF.  Thanks for all your help, I really appreciate it.

Answer 9

Hi,

 

You can use SystemSate class for find the name of the NIC.

 

Debug.WriteLine(" ConnectionsNetworkAdapters : " + Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Status.SystemState.ConnectionsNetworkAdapters.ToString)

Debug.WriteLine(" ConnectionsNetworkDescriptions : " + Microsoft.WindowsMobile.Status.SystemState.ConnectionsNetworkDescriptions.ToString)

 

Details in Windows Mobile 5 SDK.

 

Answer 10

Hi,  Four years on and I am trying to do the same thing, change from Work to Internet as the default. A number of the links that were provided to help you resolve this have died and I am struggling to follow what is needed.  Please could you post the CPF XML as I am trying to execute the XML through the Configuration Manager and I have tried a lot of different options...

 

const string networkInternetDefault="<wap-provisioningdoc>"+ " <characteristic type=\"CM_Networks\">"+ "<characteristic type=\"The Internet\">" +" <parm name=\"DestId\" "+ " value=\"{436EF144-B4FB-4863-A041-8F905A62C572}\" />"+ " </characteristic>"+ " </characteristic>"+ " <characteristic type=\"CM_NetEntries\">"+ " <characteristic type=\"The Internet\">"+ " <parm name=\"DestId\" "+ " value=\"{436EF144-B4FB-4863-A041-8F905A62C572}\" />"+ " <parm name=\"Adapter\" "+ " value=\"Symbol PHOTON Wireless LAN Driver\" />"+ " </characteristic>"+ " </characteristic>"+ " <characteristic type=\"CM_Planner\" >"+" <characteristic type=\"PreferredConnections\" >" +" <parm name=\"{436EF144-B4FB-4863-A041-8F905A62C572}\" " +" value=\"The Internet\" />"+" </characteristic>"+ " </characteristic>"+"</wap-provisioningdoc>"

;

XmlDocument

configDoc = new XmlDocument();

configDoc.LoadXml(networkInternetDefault);

 

ConfigurationManager.ProcessConfiguration(configDoc, false);